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I purchased a 2+2 almost 3 years ago with broken fenders, broken bumper, blown engine, and who knows what else. Started working on it, not knowing what i was getting into. The guy told me the timing belt had just broke. Well I didn't know anything about the z's so I just figured I could throw a new belt on. nope. Started researching it and read that the pistons had probably hit the valves. Pulled the heads in the car and that's what had happened. So I decided to do a tt swap as cheaply as possible. Picked up a tt engine with a blown #6 cyclinder, with intercoolers, piping, turbos, injectors for 450 bucks. Used stock pistons and had the block rehoned, new rings, crank polished, valve grind, new valve seals, all new bearings. Had the shop put the bearings in, pistons, rods, crank, and valves. I did the rest of the assembly. Rebuilt the lifters with the directions on here. Kind of ran out of money and had other projects I was working on so the car just sat for a while. Little work here and there but about 2 weeks ago I decided it was finally time to finish it. Started it up for the first time yesterday and after fixing spraying fuel out of the #6 injector because of a pinched o-ring that was my fault because I replaced all the o-rings, it ran beautiful. Wasn't idling quite right but all it needed was the throttle cable adjusted. I have 10 miles on it now and I love it. Still needs a little work. Had a belt squealing really bad, thought it was the alternator so I loosened it a little. Was driving around today and the belt broke so I guess it was on too tight or just a bad belt as I had reused it because it looked in good shape. So If you have read this far, what is the best way to set the belt tension without having the tool that puts the pressure on the belt. I'd post pics but I really don't have much interesting to show and the engine bay is still a litle messy. Thanks to Tim(silvertwin(ohio) for the help and support. I Im'd him and called him quite a few times to ask little questions. Thanks for all the info on the site TT.net!
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